Von der Teilung bis zur Zusammenarbeit – wir schweißen Europa zusammen! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Von der Teilung bis zur Zusammenarbeit – wir schweißen Europa zusammen!

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

Project: From division to cooperation – we weld Europe together!

1. context/background of the project
The close German-Polish school partnership has existed for 26 years, whereby a hidden and desperate 19th century cemetery was found by chance near the town of Wrezsnia. German families, women, men and children are buried here. The cemetery is an occasion for the German-Polish partner schools to preserve it with pupils from both countries. Up to now, the work in the Länder has been limited to simple gardening measures. The reason for the project to preserve the cemetery remains and refers to the renewal of twenty fence posts with decorative covering. What is new is the interdisciplinary concept in the occupational field of metal technology, as it combines vocational and cross-occupational learning.

2nd goal(s) of the project:
Goals – Learners
→ Competence acquisition (technical/methodological/social competence)
→ (Knowledge) Promotion – Technology/Arts/Mathematics
→ Welding as a basic professional skill/creativity promotion
→ Entrepreneurial thinking
→ get to know country-specific work processes/structures in companies/schools
→ German-Polish history/memorial site work perceive
→ evaluate completed (learning) phases

→ Enrichment of the own personality
→ Reduction of prejudices/language barriers
→ Development of EU civic competences
→ Recognizing the values of qualitative general/vocational education as future-oriented employability
→ Establishing contact with trainees in the partner country
→ Receipt of Europapass (international mobility certificate)

Goals for the school
→ enhanced learner-teacher cooperation as a strategic partnership
→ Strengthen your profile as a European School
→ Expanding the motivation of learners
→ Strengthening relationships (participating companies, craftsmen, city/community…)
→ Module as quality development in schools
→ Access to the expertise of the participating institutions

Goals for the participating training company
→ Image strengthening as a modern/open-minded training company in trade/industry
→ Increasing attractiveness as a training company
→ Learners bring ideas for process optimisation with them as foreign experience

Goals for the project environment
→ Awareness-raising – changing production/work processes and quality standards
→ Contact exchange as professional-critical thinking
→ Presentation of the participating institutions (regional companies – district Wolfenbüttel, Volksbund Deutsche
Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. in Braunschweig, Polish training centre/companies/organisations in Września

3. number and profile of participants:
CGLS Wolfenbüttel
→ 9 apprentices, 1st/2nd year of training (17-21 years) – construction mechanics
→ 3 Teachers
ZSP Wreznia
→ 9 apprentices, 1st/2nd year of training (17-21 years) – VW project class (dual training) Metal technology
→ 3 Teachers

4. description of the activities:
Learning arrangements are structured in a constructive way in order to develop in the mobility spiralcurricular according to the degree of variability, complexity, independence and responsibility, in connection with the company internships, as comprehensive action and self-competence.

Job-related learning area
The didactically structured project structure is divided into 4 competence-oriented modules, which are coordinated in/outside the mobility phases as competence development/qualification – curricular requirements of the (Länder) framework curricula/training regulations. The activities relate to:
→ economic, legal, mathematical aspects
→ professional problem definition after the solution beginning – industry 4.0 as manufacturing process – compile
→ encourage professional creativity with the production of the decor cover
→ ‘Welding’ as a technical and methodical task for joining metal workpieces
→ Expert discussions in (country) companies for the knowledge enhancement of digital manufacturing processes

Inter-professional learning area
The thematic development is assigned to the German-Polish learning area ‘History/Politics/Business’, so that the curricular (project) conception comprises 7 learning settings as a historical choice of topics from the 19th to 21st centuries and is oriented towards the project phases. The activities relate to:
→ communicative, social, political, historical aspects
→ On-site learning as a direct confrontation of (country) history

5. methodology for the implementation of the project:
The professional project conception is based on the manufacturing system “Industrie-4.0”: Order (Poland) → Production (Germany) → Assembly (Poland), as this learning is associated with a high technical-professional value.

6. (Short) description of the expected results/potential/long-term benefits
The project as an integrated school ‘(economic) concept’ contributes to the promotion of European cooperation/communication and forms the foundation for German-Polish follow-up projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 42870 Eur

Project Coordinator

CGLS & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Politechnicznych im. Bohaterow Monte Cassino